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10 unusual facts about Oahu


ALOHAnet

The goal was to use low-cost commercial radio equipment to connect users on Oahu and the other Hawaiian islands with a central time-sharing computer on the main Oahu campus.

Colby Granger

He spent some time in Oahu where he enjoyed surfing as was seen in the episode, "Charlie Don't Surf".

Coptotermes gestroi

It was found in a single house in Hawaii in 1963 and was next detected there in 1999 and again in 2000, on the island of Oahu.

Ethanol fuel in Hawaii

Enough ethanol is expected to be made for Kauai's use, but it must be shipped to Oahu for blending and returned for sale .

Garret T. Sato

Garret T. Sato is an American actor who was born and raised in Oahu, Hawaii.

John W. Marchetti

One of the first SCR-270s was in service on the island of Oahu on December 7, 1941.

KHA99

:Not to be confused with NOAA Weather Radio station KBA99 in Oahu, Hawaii.

Kunia Regional SIGINT Operations Center

The facility, located near Whitmore Village, Oahu, occupies the former site of the large, circular antenna at the Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Pacific, or NCTAMS PAC.

Norman Sakamoto

He represented Hawaii Senatorial District 15, comprising the communities of Aliamanu, Foster Village, Halawa, Hickam, Kalihi, Lower Aiea, Mapunapuna, Moanalua, Pearlridge, and Salt Lake on the island of Oahu.

Spy High

He won the Under-18 European Sky Bike division and Oahu Cup 2064 .


123290 Manoa

It is named after the Manoa valley on the Hawaiian island of Oahu; the provisional designation symbolizes the centennial of the 1907 founding of the University of Hawaii (UH).

Aaron Francisco

Aaron Francisco attended Kahuku High School in Kahuku, Hawai'i (Oahu), and was an All State and All Oahu Interscholastic Association (OIA) selection as a senior.

Ahuimanu, Hawaii

It is located in the community of Temple Valley, Ahuimanu in the ahupua'a of Kāne'ohe near the Ko'olau mountains on the island of Oahu.

Anatoma emilioi

This species is only known from its type locality in the Hawaiian Islands, where it was found in depths between 37 and 183 m, in Mamala Bay, Oahu.

Anne Stevens

Stevens was appointed in January 2006 to replace Galen Fox as the representative for the State's 23rd district, which includes Waikiki and Ala Moana on the island of Oahu.

Arsenius Walsh

Walsh returned to Oahu, where he became the pastor of Ahuimanu.

Asymphorodes dimorpha

It is found in Niihau, Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Maui, Lanai, Hawaii, Nihoa, Necker Island, Pearl and Hermes Reef, Midway, Kure, Wake island, Canton island, Jarvis island, but is probably much more widely distributed in the Pacific.

Campbell Cavasso

Cavasso and his family relocated to Oahu, Hawaii in October 1961, and he graduated from Kailua Elementary School, Kailua Intermediate School, and Kailua High School.

Crocidosema leprarum

It is endemic to Oahu, Molokai, Nihoa, Necker Island, French Frigate Shoals and Laysan.

Dana Brown

In 2009, he debuted a new film called Highwater during the 100th anniversary of the Santa Monica Pier; the film follows life on the North Shore and the surfers who compete in the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing.

Dole Air Race

On 28 June, about a month after Dole posted the prizes, Air Corps Lieutenants Lester J. Maitland and Albert F. Hegenberger flew a three-engine Atlantic-Fokker C-2 military aircraft from Oakland Municipal Airport to Wheeler Army Airfield on Oahu in 25 hours and 50 minutes.

Ed Francis

Francis raised his children on the windward side of Kailua, Oahu.

Evalea waikikiensis

This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off the Hawaiian islands Maui and Oahu.

Evan Peter Aurand

He remained active in civic affairs in Honolulu until his death at 71 on June 7, 1989 and was buried at sea from the USS Benjamin Stoddert off Kawaihoa Point (Koko Head), Oahu.

Gordon Haller

On Oahu, Hawaii in 1978, Haller competed in Navy Commander John Collins’ race which combined the Waikiki Roughwater Swim, the Around-Oahu Bike Race, and the Honolulu Marathon.

Gouania meyenii

This shrub grows in dry or moist forest and shrubland habitat in the Waianae Mountains of Oahu and Nā Pali Coast State Park on Kauai.

Helicoverpa hawaiiensis

It is endemic to Hawaii, where it is known from Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Maui, Lanai, Hawaii, Nihoa and Necker Island.

Honolulu Fire Department

Doyle, David W., Rescue in Paradise: Oahu's Beaches and their Guardians (Island Heritage, 2001)

Hyposmocoma malornata

It is endemic to Necker Island, Nihoa, Kauai, Oahu, Molokai, Maui and Hawaii.

Itsuko Sue Nishikawa

After graduating from Leilehua High School in Central Oahu, Itsuko left for Texas to attend the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Kala Hose

Hose is from Waianae, a traditionally blue-collar town on the western coastline of the island of Oahu in Hawaii.

Kau High and Pahala Elementary School

It was the first high school established on the Big Island and third high school established in the State after Lahainaluna High School on Maui and President William McKinley High School, formerly Honolulu High School on Oahu.

Ku Ikaika Challenge

The Ku Ikaika Challenge is an annual big-wave competition, held at Makaha Beach, in Mākaha, Hawaii, on the island of Oahu.

Lahaina, Kaanapali and Pacific Railroad

It once ran on the Oahu Railway and Land Company until it was donated in 1954 to the Travel Town Museum in Los Angeles.

Lanikai Beach

Lanikai Beach is located in Lanikai, a neighborhood within Kailua, on the windward coast of Oahu, Hawaii.

Mahi Beamer

He served in the United States Army during the post-World War II years at Schofield Barracks at Wahiawa on the island of Oahu, where he played classical piano and the glockenspiel.

Minoru Genda

Alternative-history writer Harry Turtledove used Genda as the primary Japanese protagonist in his fictional account of an invasion of Oahu following the Pearl Harbor attack in his books Days of Infamy and End of the Beginning.

North Shore Shrimp Trucks

The Travel Channel show, Man v. Food Nation, featured Giovanni's Aloha Shrimp Truck in an episode set in Oahu.

Oʻahu ʻAkepa

The Oʻahu ʻAkepa (Loxops coccineus wolstenholmei) is an extinct subspecies of the ʻAkepa that was endemic to the island of Oahu.

Opana

Opana Radar Site, a National Historic Landmark commemorating the first use of radar, located near Oahu, Hawaii

Papaya ringspot virus

Production was then moved from Oahu to the Puna region of Hawaii island (the "Big Island") under strict quarantine.

Rick Loomis

Rick Loomis served in the US Army in the 1960s, serving out his one tour of duty at Fort Shafter in Oahu, Hawaii.

Robby Naish

At a young age, his father, competitive surfer and surfboard shaper Rick Naish, moved the family from California to Kailua, on the Hawaiian island of Oahu.

Stealing the Wave

It tells the story of surfers Mark Foo and Ken Bradshaw battling for supremacy at Waimea Bay, on the North Shore of Hawaii, where some of the biggest waves in the world crash onto the shore.